This collection houses three reports produced by the University of Kentucky's Center for Developmental Change: "Social Change in Eastern Kentucky since 1960" (1973); "Changes in the Structure of Central Appalachian Families and Households, 1958-1976" (1983); and "Revolution in Reproduction: Family Planning in an Appalachian Community" (1985). Also included are two reprinted scholarly articles on similar topics.

The Wilma Dykeman and James R. Stokely Jr. Papers contain personal and family related-material, correspondence, research material, manuscripts, and visual media pertaining to the life and works of author and historian Wilma Dykeman and her husband, poet James R. Stokely Jr. The collection spans 1807-2011 with the bulk of the material dating between 1934 and 2007.